Leasing the Cloud-Edge Continuum, a la Carte

Next-gen computing paradigms foresee deploying applications to virtualised resources along a continuum of Cloud-Edge nodes. Much literature has focused on how to place applications onto such resources so as to meet their requirements. To lease resources to application operators, infrastructure providers need to identify a portion of their Cloud-Edge assets to meet application operators' requirements. This article proposes a novel declarative resource selection strategy, prototyped in Prolog, to determine a suitable infrastructure portion that satisfies all requirements. The proposal is showcased over a lifelike scenario.